Socialist Michael Harrington is one of the last of the political
evangelistsby temperament more Old Left than New Left. He comes on,
in the words of Britain's best America-watcher, D. W. Brogan, like a
pastor at the moment of decadence. In The Other America, Harrington
heaped coals on the heads of his middle-class pewholders by exposing
the suffering of the "invisible poor"and helped make it a new
priority of national concern. In this book, Harrington attempts
Jeremiah's longest leap: from the catalogue...